The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 19, 1892, Image 1
BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDEESON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1892.
VOLUME XXVIL?NO. 16.
For That Tired Feeling
? <? v/y* n?or t?nWA months I was affl
Nervous and
general debility,
depression of spirits,
loss of appetite,
insomnia,
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Prepared by Dr. J.C.Ayor* Co., Lowell, Mm. CUTOS OtherSyWill CUrOYOU
?- For over twelve months I was afflicted
with general debility, languldness, depres?
sion of spirits, headache, and Iobs of appe
tito, followed by chills. I was scarcely able
to drag myself abort the house, and no
medicine did me any good until I began to
take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer's Pins,
since which I have entirely recovered my
health." ?Mary HonricKon, Ware, Mass.
OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY!
ALL OF OUR
:dir,:e3ss o-ooids
AT COST FOR OASH,
Including all our Fall Purchases.
HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES,
SERGES, BROADCLOTHS,
BEDFORD CORDS,
LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors.
The Oa*Dinerae you pay elsewhere 30c. for we will let yon have at 15c. The
15c. line at 20c. the 40c. Hoe at 25c, and the 50c. line at SSJc, the 75c. line for bf.If
* dollar, and the dollar line for 75a.
Yoa will save on a $2.40 Dress Pattaxa 60 cents, on $8.00 Pattern the same
amount, but the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4.80 yoa save $1.80,
oa the $6.00 line yoa save $2.00, on the $0.00 line you save $3.00, on $12 00 line
yoa save $100. .
Remember, this sale will foe only for Thirty Days.
LADIES' STORE
STILL LEADING- IN
HANDSOME COOPS!
O?? 3n;er baa be*o la the Northern ssjuketa lor kbswe weeks, and has bought
the HANDSOMEST STOCK OF LADIES GOODS that has ever been brought
to fefck mattet AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL. We have added a new feature in
th,wi7-~ A B4RGAIN COUNTER.
Don't rail to inapeot oar entire Stoek, for you will SAVE MONEY I
Thanks for the past and hopes for the future.
Respectfully,
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS.
Successor to Peoples & Burriss, still Headquarters for
ilMCFijCIUierSetsJases,
Holiday G-oods, &c.
jL HE celebrated IRON KING COOK STOVE is much improved over the old
pattern. We have a fine Stove, No. 7, for $10.00, with 25 pieces, as ornamental ai
any first class housekeeper need want. A big lot of Second Hand Stores mast go
at trims price, so come in and price them.'
T1NWABE LOW DOWN !
Bring your BIGS, HIDES and BEESWAXXa nra.
tes & Burriss are
Account at the lai
JOHN T- BURRISS.
Those iadebted to the firm of Peoples & Barries are respectfully iovited
to ceil in as soon aa possible aad settle their Account at the iarae old staid with
Having bought the A. G. Means Stock of
CLOTHING, SHOES. HATS, &C,
And being deairoas of closing cut the same, vo will
SELL ALL GOODS at
IsTEW YORK COST I
tm- When we uy New York Cost WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY.
?BL Come early and make your selections .and SECURE BARGAINS.
TAYLOR & CRAYTON,
Red Front Granite Row.
seen
WHY ORDER
PIAUOS AND
From any other Marlset VFlien
THE C. A. HEED MUSIC HOUSE
Cao and will Save you Money by Buying at Home.
OUR Goods sre bought la large lots
from the Manufacturers for CASH.
Oar expenses are much lighter than
[dealers in larger cities, who sell almost
'exclusively through Sab-Aeents, thus
adding largely to the prices charged you
And. "besides, we have the LARGEST STOCK IN THE
STATE to select frot.i, and every Instrument is sold under
A POSITIVE GUARANTEE.
We respectfully solicit your patronage, which will be
highly appreciated. Respectfully,
C A. REED IVIUSIC HOUSE.
ANDEBIOy. S. C._
tgrn?^rti^-^TTm smbbb? . .-!.-.g^gg--^_ ggsa
MoGree <fc Pillingharp.
W ES are very much obliged to our friends for their liberal patronage for the pas
year, and will sty that we will have on hand at onr Stables?
FIRST CLASS MULES AND HORSES,
AND WILL GIVE YOU LIVING PRICEB.
Be sore to ?all and see us if you want a First Claas Male or Hone cleap for
?niK, or with good security.
We also can furnish you s first clau Turnout at any time. Our Livery De?
partment is equipped with tint class Hones and Buggies. We also have oa band
alot of?
PHJETONS, BUGGIES and HARNESS
That we will s?U at Rock Bottom Prices.
McGBE ? DILLLNGHAM.
Te}??h$r$'Goi,umn,
"VB. All oemmunicationi intend;*! fo
this Column should be addressed to C
WAKDL AW, School Commissioner, An?
derson, S. 0.
MEMORY GEHS.
No man ever failed who did his duty.
"Nothing great is lightly won ;
Nothing won is lost:
Every good deed nobly done,
Will repay the cost.
Leave to heaven, in humble trust,
All you will to do;
But if you succeed, you must
Paddle your own canoo."
FAREWELL.
Farewell, a word that all learn early
in life, and yet one of the last words that
fall from the human lips. A word that
all like, and still all dislike the occasion
which oalls for its utterance. A word
which, when rightly spoken, has wrap
pad up iu it a prayer.
I coma sow at the cloea of two year's
work wish and for tho ohildron and
teachers of Anderson County, and I
might say, in a small measure, with the
educational interest of the whole State,
to that time whsn I shall say to them all
farewell. And I do wish tha t the chil?
dren, the teachers and the oauus of edu?
cation may fart well.
My work in most respects has been
exceedingly pleasant. My life haa boon
made better by association and work
with the light hearted, cheerful and
bright pupils, and the noble and pure
hearted teachers. It has been my pur?
pose to inspire the boys and girls with
higher and holier ideas of life, with
more intelligent conceptions of manhood
and womanhood, and to stimulate and
encourage the teachers in working for
such results. I hava carried as my
guiding star in the work this gem of
truth, "It is better to be good than to be
educated."
The people must learn, sooner or later,
to rely less on the public schools and
more ou their own exertions and ener?
gies, for "there is just enough public
help to paralize individual effort." The
rural schools need generally better
houses and better furniture. The schools
I will never be what they should be until
j this is accomplished. Considerable has
been done along this line within the paat
two years, but muoh more remains to be
done, and must bs done, if we would not
have the cry continue that "the public
schools are s failure." The Trustees
could help in this work wonderfully if
they only would. It would be better if
it can not be accomplished otherwise, to
I stop the public sohools for one term and
I spend the money ia sucuriog better
I school houses, desks, black-boards, &c.
I But such a course is not necessary, as
has been demonstrated in Ceotreville,
Garvin and Beltou Districts. One other
thing I have worked for and have, by tho
kindly aid of the Trustees, accomplished
in several Districts, and that is to get tbe
finances iu such shape that the teachers'
will be paid cash at the end of each
month without borrowing moaey.
Another thing necessary to a good
'school"is^ft-unity of purpose andefforjL
among the patrons. TheyV Coo, often let
their little differences work their way
into the school room. Tboy cannot
agree on a teacher. One wants a male,
another a female, and others are not sat*
isfied with anybody unless, they can have
their choice. All should join in with
the msjority and make the school a suc?
cess, whather the teacher is the one
wanted or not. There are other things
that I might refer to, but must desist.
In taking my leave of tbe schools of
Anderson County I feel no fears con?
cerning them, while in the bands of such
teachers as we have.
So far as the writer is concerned, be
would not give the good wishes and ex?
pressions of commendation conveyed to
him both orally and by letters from tbe
teachers, for the office. Ten thousand
times more to be desired are tbe respect
and commeadation of the people than
their votes.
As I have said, my work for and
among the children and teachers has
been very pleasant and beneficial. I
have always loved tbe children, and my
work during tbe lsst two years has in*
teosified and strengthened that love. I
Bee in them the coming men and women,
and feel that whstever of greatness is to
be must come through them. I see also
that tbe country needs better men and
better women, and the only hope of se
-securing them is In making better boys
and girls of the school ohildren. The
hope of the country is in tha children.
The children have beou exceedingly
kind to me, as have also the teachers,
and consequently there has grown up be?
tween us a mutual friendship that will
not soon fade away. And in taking my
leave of you, ohildren aud teachers, be
assured that I will ever remember you
with most pleasant recollections, and
will ever be glad to hear of your pros*
perity and success.
If in tbe future I can, in any way,
serve any of you, you have only to com?
mand me.
Farewell 1
? "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of
Pickled Peppers," was a line of allitera?
tive nonsense, that the children used to
say. Nowadays they can practice ou
the Perfect, Painless, Powerful Proper?
ties of Pierce's Pleasant Purgaiive Pel?
lets. It will impress a fact which will be
useless to know. These Pellets cure sick
headache, bilious attacks, Indigestion,
constipation and all stomach, liver and
bowel troubles. They are tiny, sugar
coated pills, easy to take, and, as a laxa?
tive, one is sufficient for a dose. No
more groans and gripes from the old
drastic remedies I Pierce's Purgative
Pellets are as painless as they are perfect
in their effects,
? How you spend your time largely
determines your character. Stay at
home at night and you will at least keep
sober; read good books in your leisure
hours and you will at least not be a blank
fool; keep smutty tales and fool slush
out of your talk and you will at least not
be a bore. Live within your means and
you will at least not bo hampered with
debts,
BILL ASP'S TALK.
An> Struck with the Pretty Town of Mar
?hall.
jLUcnMa Oon?*Pkt*k>n.
When a town grows to have 8,000 in?
habitants it is just about large enough.
No town ought to havo mora than 10,000.
If the influence of great cities is pesti?
lential to good morals, as Jefferson said,
Iben how large can a city safely be
btfore the pestilence bogins. It seems
to me that 8,000 Is about right, for that
number ensures good schools and per?
haps a college or two. It ensures good
churches of at least four denominations
with good preachers who are fairly well
paid?churches that living do not lan?
guish and preachers whose families are
not pinohed with poverty. Church as?
semblies axe invited there once or twice
a year and their ministers and laymen
mix and mingle with tbe people iu their
homes and leave the influence of their
good example as a benediction upon the
community. For those who like secular
pleasures it secures good halls and opera
houses, good shows aud troupes and con?
certs, good orators aad letcuxers. It se?
cures good streets aud sidewalks, aud
waterworks and gasworks, and ice fac?
tories and other luxuries that a prosper?
ous people saa afford to indulge in. It
secures a good market, good butchers atd
bakers, a laundry and, last but not least,
a daily aewspapar.
I waa ruminating about this became I
am here in Marsball, which has that
many people, and is just such a place,
It is big enough and everybody seems to
bo content. They don't want to strain
tbe town with a boom, for they say it
j grows fast enough from the natural in?
crease, and they don't want prosperity to
go up so high that they can't pay the
taxes oh. It is the outspreadinest town
for its sire I ever saw, for most every
family of any pretentious has got an acre
or two enclosed and a grove of shade
trees somewhere. Many of them have
from two to five acres and fruits and
flowers abound everywhere. The me:
chanios and the unpretending people
generally own their residences where the
good wife and daughters can plant their
vines and shrubbery and hang a few
pictures on the walls and re-paper the
room and fix up the kitchen without
feeling that they will have to move when
Christmas comas. If I was a king and a
Croesus, my highest ambition would be
to see to it that every family, however
humble, should have a home, a home
that they could beautify and adorn and
love, a home that the children would
love to think about when they grew up
to manhood or womanhood and become
transplanted to some other less hallowed
spot. There is no purer pleasure in this
life than in adding to the little comforts
in aud around home. It is far better to
make these improvements from time to
time as the puree will admit of than to
buy them already made. It is better for
the children to make them if they can,
aud let their own handiwork embelish
and adorn tbe home aud the front yard.
I thought of this the other day when our
girls called me up stairs to show me their
day's work. They had bought a beauti
4ui^ZgQt^SQX.2Q- cents ajd^adjmade_
the paste aud put it on their room and
the entire cost, iuoluding the bordering,
was only $1.80, and they bought a little
can of paint for half a dollar aud re
coated the mantel and the doors and
window casings and evarything looked
so new and clean. Most anybody can do
these things if they will try and there is
refinement and pleasure in it. "Make
home happy" should be the motto of
every family, It is common, or it need
to be, to see iu a frame over the mantle
worked in crochet or painted with a
brush, the prayer "God Bless our Home,"
but a better thing is to go to work and
bless it yourself. A Marshall man told
me that there was but one rich man
within her limits and not half a dozen
poor ones. No beggars for charity aud
nobody utterly poor. Old Agnee's prayer
has been answered to this people. A
magnificent courthouse is the only ex?
travagant thing I saw, but that is Texas.
If they dideut have that, Marshall would
be just over the line in Louisiana. The
railroad shops add a good deal to the
prosperity of this place. They are very
extensive and employ several hundred
bauds and pay out not less than $5,000 a
week for labor, aud all this is expended
and circulated in the community aud
keeps things lively. Without them the
town would languish and soon go into a
state of innocuous desuetude, or words to
that effect. I never did know what Mr,
Cleveland meant by that, but it must be
something mighty bad. I hope it won't
catch him in November.
Considering the great benefits of these
shops to the prosperity of Marshall, I
supposed that almost every citizen would
be for Clark for governor, but they say
he was fairly nomiuated and they will
vote for him, and they say he will be
more friendly to railroads and to capital
than he has been. But 1 shall take no
part in the contest. Mr. Cleveland and
I have concluded to keep our bands off
of this factional quarrel.
Last evening I saw the cows milked.
Mr. Lotkop, whose guest I am, has a
small hord of seventeen beautiful Jer- I
seys, besides the calves. They are said
to be the finest in the State and no finer
in the South. It waa a novelty aud a
revalation to me. There they were in a
row. Every one in her stall haltered to
her feed trough and all looking calm and
serene and seemed to be happy to have
their swollen udders emptied, some of
them gave two gallons and some less, but
I learned that the quantity of milk is no
longer a test. We uiad to speak of a
three-gallon cow or a four-gallon cow,
but now the butter record is all that is
mentioned. The standard is fourteen
pounds a week. There are only 8,000
Jerseys in the United States who coma
up to that record. Of course, there are
many who have broken the record, as
they say a.' ->ut Nancy Hanks. There
are many co>^ who make twenty-five
pounds a week and a few who have gone
to thirty. Such cows are almost priceless
and their calves bring from five hundred
to five thousand dollars before they are a
year old. Mr. Lothrop knows the pedi?
gree of every one of his cows as far back
so he does his own. Tbey are all regis?
tered in the books and his books are well
bound and make quite a library, for there
are 65,000 Jeneyi registered In them.
He is a director in the national atsocia
tion and is desperately in love with his
business. He sells 150 pounds a week of
golden butter, and realizes 87} cents a
pound for it. Every pound Is sold in
Marshall and he cannot supply the de?
mand. I saw the separator at work?the
machine that has cylinders revolving
6,400 times in a minute?and the centri?
fugal force sends the cream out at one
tube and the skimmed milk at another.
That milk is fed to his litters of Berk?
shire pigs that are oomiag on In a back
lot, and I kp~"/ tbat kind of pork mu?t
be good amTsweet and healthy. One of
the heifers dropped a beautiful calf yes?
terday, but it happened to be a boy and
the poor little unfortunate thing had to
be knocked in the head, for he says it
doetent pay to raise boy calves. Fortu?
nately, the mother never cried about it
nor mourned for more than a day. Give
her enough to eat and she is happy. A
oow has got leu sense and less emotion
than any creaiuro of its size upon earth.
You can teach horsos and doge and birds
many things, but a cow nothing?noth?
ing hardly, and this ia all for the good of
mankind. Providence created them to
supply us with meat and milk, and but?
ter and shoes, and that is all. In haste.
Bill Abf.
Fall Care of Cows.
Too many dairymen talk about "put?
ting their cows upon their Winter feed."
The good dairyman doea not koow when
Autumn ends and Winter begins. With
him there is no sndden change from wet
to dry, or cold to warmth ; and the man
who sees tbat the Summer dairy is as
well cared for at the Winter one, and the
reverse, will be the one who has succeed?
ed in keeping hit cows giving milk until
near calving t'.me. In oar dairy, judi?
cious feeding and care doubly pay me
by furnishing milk evsn in the mid
Summer, so tbat the milk-can makes its
tripi tu the creamery every day in the
year, when by the old plan of dairying,
tee eint rested from milk-giving at leaat
eighteen weeks, and thai al the time of
their greatest coat, namely. Wintor
months. Few dairymen begin to stable
their cows early enough in the Fall. To
them it eeems a loss not to have cows in
the pasture night and day until the
ground is actually fronen, the idea being
tbat this frosted feed will be lost if not
eaten. The fact is ignored that milk, if
secured in profitable quantities, ia a
result of warmth and comfort, and no
cow on frosted feed, deluged by lu? cold
and penetrating rains of Autumn and
chilled by frosts, can maintain the flow
of milk tbat the would if kepi in the
stable at night and on stormy Qdayt.
Teaching a cow to endure cold weather,
and expecting her to do well in milk
yield, baa not paid since the advent of
Winter dairying. The Winter dairymen
have found tbat the nearer they make
tht Fall and Winter albs like June,
the better the results. In general prac?
tice I find that as Boon at the chilly
night? set in October, it pays to keep the
cows in, and feed them in the stable, for
a cow by preference never likes a wet
and a_CQld bsdr.and by the same reason?
ing it never found on the windyside ?fa
fence, but hunts a ah altered nook, if one
is to be found. Let us take a hint from
the cow herself, and as soon as the fire is
needed in the house, put this mother
cow, that in her milk-giving ia more
susceptible to cold than the "dry" one,
into the warm stable and generously feed
her, and defer the toughening period
until warmer weather in the spring, and
by this more generous and humane treat?
ment secure many more gallons of better
milk, and place ouraelvee among the
more progressive dairymen of the country.
?John Gould, in O. J. Farmer.
The Deacon's Wooing.
Deacon Sharp, who lives in Buckeye
Yallsy, has never married. He made the
attempt once, aaya the Free Freu, but hia
humility and piety worked against him.
Ho was the same long solemn-visaged
chap then that he is now, with what is
known as a "gift of prayer." In season
and out of season he was ready at any
moment to flon down on his kneea and
tell al! he knew of spiritual grace. There
were those who said he like to hear him?
self talk.
On this occasion he aaked Jenny Price
to be hia partner for life, and Jenny, who
was a prime little school teacher, con?
sented.
Then the deacon flopped. He began
In hia usual strain by invoking forgive?
ness for hia sinB. He was everything tbat
was vile, and as he enumerated the
crimes laid down in hia own imagination,
Jenny began to fidget. At last ?he touch?
ed the dacon on the shoulder.
"You needn't pray any more on my
account," she said ; "I wouldn't think of
marrying auch a wicked sinner. If you
art only half as bad as you siy you are,
I wouldn't have you. I hope you will
repent before it is too late."
And ehe left the astonished deacon to
hit own reflections npon matrimony aud
grace.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
By local applications, ae they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only ooe way to cure Deafness,
and that ia by constitutional remedies,
Dcafneas is caused by an inflamed con?
dition of the mucoja lining of the EusUi
chian Tube. When this tube gets in?
flamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it in entire?
ly closed Deafneaa ia the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for?
ever ; nine caset out of ten ars caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be curod by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Seed for circalara, free.
F. J. OHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo50.
SSrSold by all Druagista, 75c.
? It is calculated tbat 1000 thrifty
coffee trees will yield a fair average of
3200 pounda of coffee per annum.
A STAB OF HOPI.
Interacting Communication About Who at
Mining;
In tbe CoHon Plant of July 80th Mr.
Bodgers asks for the name of an agent
or a dealer in "patent flour mil la." He
can obtaia the address of such by tbe
dozen by consulting the advertising col?
umns of the milling aud othsr industrial
journals.
His card and questions relate to a sub*
ject of such vital importance to those who
make and consume bread that I hope
the readers of this paper will not con?
sider what I have say an iutrusion. To
make every poiut iu every detail plain
in treating this subject, from the time the
seed wheat is committed to the soil un?
til the barrel of flour is rollod from un?
der the packer or the loaf is drawn from
the oven, would require a considerable
volume. As that volume is impractica?
ble, and would be (to the writer) un?
profitable, many things that are necessary
to be known will have to remain ob?
scure.
Mr. Bodgers has evidently scented the
right trail when he proposes to organize
a joint stock company for the manufac?
ture of the farmers' wheat Into flour.
Such a company, composed of farmers
who raise the wheat, are the only ones
that would bo likely to succeed in such
an enterprise, because such stockholders
would And it to their interest to use their
land, capital, eaeagy, skill and influence
to improve the quality aid augment the
quantity of the wheat that alone could
make tbe business of wheat milling a suc?
cess in our State.
Flour milling in this State with Im?
ported grain should no*, be thought of,
for there are many incontrovertible ar?
guments to prove that it could not suc?
ceed. Flour milling in South Carolina
on South Carolina raised wheat could be
made remunerative if a sufficient quan?
tity of wheat was raised to supply home
demand. To move in this direction the
first thing necessary to be dose would be
to inaugurate a system that would bring
farmer and miller in close touch with
each other, aad heep thorn there. The
nest things of supreme importance to
consider are: first ample capital; second,
ample water power; third, a sufficient
quantity of wheat; fourth, skill-knowl?
edge. Neither oao of the above named
requisites could be dispensed with, and
without a guarantee of all four no indi?
vidual or compay could suoceed. With?
out ample capital debts would be made,
the interest of which would swallow up
all the profits iu spite of the best me?
chanical skill and business management.
By amals capital I do not mean millions
of dollars, but I do mean a few thousand
dollars, sufficient to establish a small
plant, such as any wheat growing county
or comasuuity would need, and place it
at once ou a solid, substantial cash foun?
dation. As to power?water would be
superior to steam?the verdict of engine
builders to the contrary notwithstand?
ing. Wattr power is steady aud free
from the fluctuations and reciprocating
crank motion so objectionable in all
steam engines, which is a prolific source
of black lash that is dreaded by intelli?
gent flour millers. Water power also
?3 decided.jjdvantages over steam in
the cost of fuel, engineer's v.ige-i, risk
of life and properly from boiler explo?
sions and fire insurance. As to wheat:
that is of so much importance that it
cannot receive j u'.k's in this short arti?
cle. As has alrxiudy been stated, im?
ported grain Bhould sot be thought of,
except on a very light experimental
scale, to mix with home-raised, to make
fancy brands for city folks that never
buy any other but the highest priced
artioles, and also to keep business going
when the domestic supply runs short.
In the face of so many drawbacks to
wheat raising in this State, such as rust,
Hessian fly, warm Winters, hot Springs,
impoverished land, stinking amat, cheat,
cockle, rat filth, oats, wild garlic, etc.,
tbe very serious question arUes: Can
wheat growing aad whoat milling be
ever made a success ? Without attempt?
ing a direct answer, I will slate that ex?
perience has demonstrated the fact that
great majority of the above obstacles
can be surmounted, for some years the
farmer makes a good crop of wheat in
spite of his carolesenees. Farmer stock?
holders in a small, neat, well-equipped
flour mill would be likely to Investigate,
and the result of such investigation
would in a few years improve the aver?
age quality and yield of wheat wonder?
fully, and the light could not be hid but
would be contagious. The knowledge,
skill and experience required for such
an undertaking; the ability to plan
building aud machinery so as to suit
both custom and merchant milling, as
well as looking very carefully after clean?
ing machinery, and most especially the
purifying and grading of the farmer's
seed, is a matter of the greatest impor?
tance when a pormanont business is
aimed at. Such necessary knowledge
must be based upon something more thai
being versed in the claims of manufac?
turers of water wheels, steam engines,
corrugated and smooth iron and porce?
lain rolls, middlings, purifiors, bran
dusters, etc , at the same time quite for?
getful of the fact that such manufactu?
rers and their hired agonts axe intensely
human, generally making their wares to
Bell, and very genorally, after a sale is
consummated, a majority of them ore
done with tbe transaction, and the over
confiding purchaser left to lament tbe
fate of a man who has been swindled.
Exporience along this line, to have a
money value, must also extend beyond
the simple knowledge of what per cent,
of ground alum or sulphate of zinc is
necessary to mix with a certain grade of
wheat that will produce, when ground, a
grade of flour that will sell for the most
money.
Mr. Bodgers says: "We have only
bnhr stone mills, and it makes no odds
ow good our wheat is it is ruined al?
most by the slow process of grinding."
is too true that much of the farmer's
wheat has been ruined in custom mills
grinding wheat, fuzz, bran, dirt, rat
, onions, oats, cheat, etc., together,
akiug a dark, greasy, slick substance
flour, but better named by an an
millor "Jarsey Blue." Much of
' . however, the farmer himself is re
' spoislble for. The ulow process of
j grinding does not ruin the floor, as the
brother thinks; bat rather the reverse.
Neither is the eld style bnhr entirely re?
sponsible. A portion of the responsi?
bility rests with the man who makes the
original plan ; still another portion rests
with the so called miller who has not
learned perhaps that good flour cannot
be made from bad, damaged or imper?
fectly cleaned wheat, and that "between
the atones the flour is made." Many
millers and millwrights, when they have
finished what in kindness ia called atone
dressing, (stone butchering), both face
and furrow has the appearance of an ir?
regular cnt bastard file, a dozen timea
magnified; then aucb sianes are in a fit
condition to grind coarse cloba for hogs
or cattle, and woe betide the customers
who, for the first dozen, grind after that
flat, clean bran, and an article of floor
that is pure, clean and sweet, and though
fine enough to bolt through No. 12 xx
silk, it rereala, under a magnifying glass,
tbat it ia perfectly granulated and has a
delicious nctty taste thai!; all pure flour
should have; they get bran as fine
ground, aa sharp and nearly as heavy as
fine pearly grits. And the floor, well, if
"Janey Blue" does not describe it,
Webster's next edition may contain the
right word. "Tbat patent flour mill"
that Jr. B. spoke of may be too costly
and complicated and would hardly suit
our immediate wants. Many of the de?
vices of the patent sharks are treacher?
ous and dangerous, as many custom and
small merchant millers of the past could
testify.
Many of the eleborate patent processes
were intended not so much to improve
the product and increase the yield, so
that the farmer, miller aad consumer
would all be benefited; but, like the
popular practice of medicine to-day, they
were intended to mystify and put money
into the pockets of patent rings, their
henchmen, manufacturers, and drive the
email merchant and custom miller to the
wall, thereby putting the whole business
in the hasds of the big mill owners
giant monopolies. While there is more
science about bread making in all ita
ramifications than there ia in the art of
dosing out medicine to the stock, still the
farmers have il in their power to raise
and manufacture the bread we eat, and we
are very foolish if we don't combine and
do it.
A majority of the old buhr mills with
the judicious outlay of a few hundred
dollars, could be so improved tbat tkey
would give tbeir cuatomers abundant
satisfaction. The addion of an oat and
cockle machine, a proper adjustment of
the scouring machine tbat every mill
has, would, by intelligent management,
be sufficient to do fairly good work in
cleaning the grain, especially by run?
ning it through two or three times in?
stead of once. Then the stones would
have to be in good condition. A pair of
simple, cheap, (not patent,) smooth
break rolls, a small purifier and a proper
adjustment, and clothing and bolting
reels; and if intelligence and compe?
tency bas planned and directed the work,
an excellent rig would be the result, that
might bring a smile to the entire com?
munity, especially at th* breakfast table
after a good crop of wheat was harvested,
threshed and ground. Tho "Long Roll?
er" patent systems could practically do
no better workTha^_^nl8^tt^e"l^^n^n^lav
tion will, and the good part would be that
farmers cculd mix alumn in tbeir bread
at the table to tbeir own liking. The
little combination mill would cost only
hundreds, while the big roller process
would cost tens of thousands, and could
never be reached by a company of a hun?
dred farmers.
To ({ire an idea of the value of the
wheat that grows ia a Southern lattitude, I
matures and ripens under a Southern
sun, I will from memory quote in sub?
stance what I read several years ago. A
test was made with flour made from
North Georgia wheat and flour made
from Michigan or Minnesota wheat (I
cannot now call to mind which.) The
sample of Georgia flour contained in
round numbers, 8 percent.of moisture,
while the Northwestern flour contained
in round numbers, 16. By calculation
based upon said test, a barrel of tbat
from Georgia would make from thirty to
fifty pouids more than the Northwest?
ern. Tbat test and analysis showed also
a considerable difference in the per cent,
of gluten contained in the different
flours, being in favor of the flour of Geor?
gia wheat, and a corresponding lest quan?
tity of starch. Tho sum of that test
showed that Southern flour contained
lese water and less starch, but contained
more gluten ; because it contained more
properties that make muscle, brain and
strength. Have we anything to serve as
proof tbat our wheat is superior to North?
ern and Western? We have abundance
of It. Every housekeeper who has used
flour, both home raised and imported,
knows that there 1b a marked difference
in the time a barrel of home flour will
last the family over the barrel that is
bought from the store. The barrel of
imported flour is loosely packed, bat con?
tains fall weight, 200 pounds net. The
barrel of bone flour, if it weigha 196, it
is packed solid and requires much dig?
ging with a saucer to get it out. The
gluten test is also familiar to all "poor"
housekeepers. The woman who makes
starch from flour takes about a teacupful
of nice white flour, adds enough clear
water to make a stiff dough. After thor?
ough kneading, it Is then worked or knead?
ed in a bowl of clear water until the
starch is all dissolved, leaving tho tough
lamp of gluten, which is insolnblo, in
water. To finish the starch the water in
which it is diiisolved is strained through
a thick towel and then carefully boiled,
and the gelatine, glucose and other im?
purities is skimmed off the top; a final
straining finishes. By trying Western
flour for starch making, it will be found
that some of it bas very little starch and
still less gluten. If people were educa?
ted along this line, there wonld not be
so much kaolin and alum used for bread,
because with a few simple testa the
breadcaaker could detect much of the
adulteration.
In conclusion, xvill apologize for the
length of this article; but there is a mo?
tive behind every man's actions or writ
I ten sentiments. I see no reason to keep
mine in the background. I have had an
interest in the trade described in this ar?
ticle. I have studied it carefully with
all the diligence I possess, but I see no
way out, save by farmers and millers mu?
tually co-operating. Flour milling must
die in this State, must go overboard,
without the hearty co-operation of the
farmers, and the farmer's wheat would
be a valueless incubus without the mill
to manufacture it iu first class flour,
Will we ever get government ownership
of railroads ? If we do, we have not a
great deal of use for home-raised wheat.
But if we do uofc got government owner?
ship of railroads, then we need to make
our own wheat and flour. I should like
to see this subject discussed by more com ?
potent and able writers than myself; but
if you are not ready for it, brethren, I
am sure I can wait.
I will say to friend Bodgers that the
business of making flour is a progressive
one and cannot be successfully carried
on by simply investing in some com- j
pany's patent machinery. It is a boai
ners that has to be learned step by step,
aad the man embarking must expect
many disappointments and discourage?
ments ; but ultimate success would mean
much more than a simple competence
for a single individual or company, for
our depressed and downtrodden South
Carolina farmers. Is the prize worth
laboring for 7 P. I. Bawl.
Rocky Well, 8. C, Augutt 10,1892.
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Better Than Cotton.
Mr. J. F. Erwin, of Cabarrus, the
father of Mr. John Erwin, the night
clerk at the Central Hotel, has been in
the city for a few days. He and his son,
Mr. 0. L. Erwin, are conducting a grass
and stock farm in Carbarrus, and yester?
day an Observer reporter had a very in?
teresting conversation with him on the
subject. Tbe farm consists of 287 acres
and the land bad been used for the pro?
duction of cotton for 75 years, or until it
was washed and run down. Five years
ago Mr. Erwin realized that there was no
money iu cotton, though it was then sell?
ing at 10 cents and he was raising a half
bale to tbe acre, and that besides if he
kept on bis laud would soon be worth?
less. Thereupon he abandoned cotton
and has raised none since, but turned his
attention instead to grain, grass and
stock raising. He filled the gullies with
brush, fertilized the lands and sowed
clover aud orchard grass seed. At the
same time he began stock raising on a
small scale and now has twenty-five head
of horses and mules. One of these, a
one-year-old colt, a grandssn of Abdul
Koree, took the first prize at the recent
Concord fair. He is raising stock for
market and sees something in it.
But as to the grain and grass growing:
Mr. Erwin last year raised 1,100 bushels
of wheat and oats. On ten acres of
ground be made 300 bushels of wheat?
an average of 30 bushels to the acre, and
but for the loss from the wheat falling
down would have realized 33 bnshels per
acre. All of his wheat is made on clo?
ver sod, clover, in Mr. Erwin's opinion,
far surpassing peas as a fertilizer. He
is satisfied that be can grow wheat at
better profit at $1.00 per bushel than he
could cotton at 10 cents per pound. He
has fifty acres in clover now, makes his
own clover seed and will hereafter have
it to sell. Seeing that this is worth from
?M.00~to $8.00 per bushel, it will at once
I appear that the clover seed industry is
! not an insignificant one.
It is as good as a play to hear Mr. Er?
win talk farming. He could give the
cotton farmers of this section valuable
points. He does not run much to corn,
bat sees great possibilities in stock rais?
ing and growing grasses and the small
grains.?Charlotte Observer.
A Thousand Cattle Burned.
? Boise City, October 2.?Blausen
Bios, have received word from the su?
perintendent of their stock range in the
Bear Biver Valley that more than 1,000
head of fat cattle have been destroyed by
the great forest fires that have for weeks
been sweeping over that region. Nine
houses and four cabins were also de?
stroyed, and three herdsmen fatally
burned.
The cattle were feeding in a small val?
ley ou Tuesday last. A strong wind
suddenly ;blew a sea of fire down upon
them. The animals stampeded, but they
ran in the wrong direction. Before the
cowboys could turn the maddened ani?
mals the herd was surrounded by flames.
The cattle huddled in the centre of a
clearing, about a mile square in extent,
and the cowboys thought they might re?
main quiet and eventually escape.
Showers of cinders and sparks fell upon
the herd, however, and presently a steer
ran amuck among its companions, goring
them with its horns and bellowing
frightfully. The other animals broke
and ran iu all directions. Many of
them dashed into the midst of the flames,
where they perished in horrible agony.
Others ran into the burning forest near
where the cabins had stood and paused
to drink at a water-hole, but the fluid
was scalding hot, and the poor brutes,
maddened by their intensified sufferings,
viciously charged each other and every
other living object in sight. To save
their lives the four cowboys who were
within the fiery cirole attempted .o force
their horses through a narrow belt of
grease-wood, the 6brubs standing about
two feet high. Before they had gone ten
feet the animals bad inhaled flames and
dropped to the earth, their riders being
compelled to run back to their starting
place.
After nine houn the wind drove the
flames onward, and the men on Ransom's
range attended to the needs of their suf?
fering friends. Only twenty-seven cat?
tle out of 1,000 escaped the flames, their
half burued bodies being strewn over
I five acres of ground?St. Loxtii Otobe
< Democrat.
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Bruisos, Soros, Ulcers, Salt Bheum, Fe?
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil?
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per?
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Price 25 cents per box. For ssle by
Hill Bros,
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
? Good brains are often kept in ft
poor-looking vessel.
? Time to bnry the hatchet is before
blood is found upon it.
? Mistakes are ?fter, bought at a big
price, and sold at a small one.
? The greatest misfortune that can
happen is to become deaf to tho word of
God.
? Whenever the Bible is read in your
bearing God is trying to say something
to you.
? Many a wise man has picked up a
good 8nggestion where some fools drop?
ped it.
? Many & man thinks he can read a
woman like a book till he tries to shut
her up.
? "Men will fight for their politics,
but how quiet some of them do keep
about their religion."
? It is reported to have raiued alliga?
tors during a recent severe rain-storm at
Ottumwa, Iowa.
? A Chicago widow suet a man for
$50,000 for having told her husband to
j jump into the river, which he did.
? An undertaker at Louisville, 2?y.,
opened a coffin burled 60 yean ago and
found the body perfectly preserved.
? Buyer: Is this suit all wool?
Mozlnsky: I von't lie to you, my friend,
for it is not. De buttons vas made of
silk.
? Look out for cheap substitutes I
Beware of new remedies. Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup has stood the test for near*
ly fifty years.
? A New Hampshire cure for sore
throat i3 to wear about the neck a stock?
ing, \i the toe of which a potato has
been tied.
? He tbat has a pure heart will never
cease to pray; and be who will be con
stant in prayer shall know what it is to
have 3 pure heart.
? The healing and purifying qualities
of Salvation Oil render it the best article i
for the speedy cure of ulcerated sores.
25 cents.
? The only city in the world on the
line of the equator is Quito, and there"
the sun rises and seta at the same time I
all year round, namely, 6 o'clock.
? An average of 9,000,000 kids are
slaughtered every yenr ? o furnish a sin?
gle manufacturing town in France with
skins. These will make 1,200,000 dozens
of gloves.
? "I can take 100 words a minute,")
si. id the stenographer. "I often take more j
than tbat," remarked the other in sor?
rowful accents; "but then I have to,j
I'm married."
? A bottle thrown into the Atlantic!
November 24, 1887, from the Oephalo
nia, about 400 miles out from Boston,!
recently washed ashore on a little isletlrrj
the Caribbean Sea, 6,800 miles array.
? The most densely populated square!
mile in the world ia not in China on
Belgium, but in the city of New York!
and tbat is inhabited by 270,000 people]
the large part of whom are Italians.
? If you wish to secure a certain and
speedy reault, when usiDg Ayer's Sana
parilla, be careful in observing the role
of health, or the benefit may be retarded J
A fair aud persistent trial of this medij
cine never fails, when the directions ;
followed.
? The "angry tree" attains aheiglj
of from 10 to 20 feat. It is found
Nevada, California and Arizona,
disturbed by contact or moved by
wind it manifests signs of vexation, ruf-j
fling its leaves like the hairs of an an{
cat and emitting a sickening odor.
? Between disease and the man
cheap preparations which are pained ol
under the name of blood purifiers, tab
your chances with disease, until you oai
procure Ayer's Sarsaparilla?the onl;
reliable blood purifier. Bold by all drug
gists aud dealers In medicine.
? When aerial navigation become
perfected, and people from all quarter
of the globe fly through the air like
bird, it will be very difficult to qc
tine against the cholera, The denl
of the air will light down on our he
and roost in our hair. True, we migl
keep them off with air guns.
? Mr. Marcus Vandiver, of Whij
County, Ga., has been placed in jail i
Gainesville under an indictment for.
by the grand jury laut week charji
him with the murder of Duke Palmer,]
lawyer of Cleveland, which took place i
the 5? of June, 1872. twenty years
? Sam Jones addr Based the Bapt
ministers of New York a few days if.
and in the course of bis remarks ma
the following characteristic utteranc
"I have a very kindly feeling for Baj
tists. I would never be the man I am]
it bad not been 'or my wife, and I
her out of your pond."
? The smallest post office in
world is at the Straits of Magellan
has been there for many years. It coj
sista of a small painted keg or cask a j
is chained to the recks of the extrei
cape in a manner so that it floats
opposite Terra del Fuogo. Each paaslj
ship sends a boat to bike letters out a j
put others in.
? Mr. Spurgeon was severe on mini
ters who undertake the duties of
most sacred calling without proper qui
fications. He said; "I heard one say i
other day tbat a certain preacher bad
more gifts for the ministry than an O]
ter, for that worthy bivalve shows gt\
discretion in bis openings and kne
when to close."
? There ia a patient and Industrie
man named Rila Kittridge, of Belf
Me., who is putting Mr. Gladstone's gr{
speeches on postal cards, which he set
to the "Grand Old man." On somej
the cards bo manages to get 20,000 wor
Mr. Gladstone is himself addicted to'
postal card habit; but when be
Borne of these missives, he must feel
be bas the disease in a very mild for
? Warm quarters are essential to:
comfort and well doing of cattle. Hj
a shiftless farmer who allows his stoci
hug the side of a fodder stack endeav
ing to protect themselves from the
rains, rtharp winds and sleeting stor
winter. Stock well cared for, warm j
drily housed from storms, regularly j
and watered, will come out in the spij
looking plump and sleek upon tho fo
that would be consumed by these
shiver around a fodder stack all wir